Handy sewing service



J. S. BROOKS AND J. M. COLLINS.

' HANDY SEWING SERVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR-8,1919.

1,33 1,236. Patented Feb. 17, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. BROOKS AND JOSEPH M. COLLINS, OF CAMBRIDGE,

MARYLAND.

HANDY SEWING SERVICE.

Application filed April 8, 1919.

1 b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN S. BROOKS and JOSEPH M. CoLLiNs, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Dorohesterand State of Maryland, have invented certain new and; usefulImprovements in Handy Sewing Services, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in handy sewing service, and theprimary object of which is to provide a service or apparatus adapted tocontain various kinds and sizes of. spools of cotton or silk, togetherwith means for readily cutting the thread after the desired lengththereof is drawn from the spool, with an intermediate thread-holdingspace and a drawer below the cutters for holding various articles, suchas buttons, needles, etc., and below the drawer a needle or pin-cushionfor holding the needles, necessarily used in sewing operations, wherebythe user has conveniently at hand all that is required.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the followingdescription.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a erspective view partly insection of a han y sewing. service embodying our present invention. I

Fig. 2is a sectional view taken transverse of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3' is a reduced horizontal sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out our invention, we provide a case 1, preferably composedof metal. This case has an upper compartment 2, for containing thespools 3 of cotton, silk or thread, which are loosely placed on rods 4,that extend up from the bottom 5 of said compartment 2. Below thiscompartment 2 is another compartment containing a drawer 6, having theusual handle 7 for pulling it out and pushing it in. This drawer is forthe purpose of containing buttons, needles, etc., conveniently for theperson using the service. The drawer 6 rests upon a division wall 8, andspaced apart from this division wall 8 is a bottom 9. Between thedivision wall 8 and bottom 9 is a suitable cushion 10, of any suitablesubstance or material, and this cushion is held in place by a cloth ll,placed outside of the cushion and having its upper edge 12 secured tothe division wall 8 in any suitable manner, and its Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1920. SerialNo. 288,449.

lower edge 18 suitably secured to the bottom 9.

Secured in the division wall or bottom 5 of the top compartment 2, are asuitable number of hook-shaped knives 14, which extend outward as shown,and the outer wall 15 of the drawer 6, is provided with a vertical slot16, for each of the hook-shaped knives. These knives preferably pro]ectdownward, as shown. The upper compartment 2 is provided with a movabletop 17, preferably hinged at its rear edge at 18, so that the top may beraised for the purpose of opening the top of the compartment 2 to permitthe spools 3 to be placed therein and removed therefrom.

The upper edge of the outer wall 19 of the upper compartment 2, isprovided with a series of vertical slots or slits 20, one for each spoolthrough which the thread 21 from the spools extend. as shown, andthrough which the thread is drawn to the desired length, when it is cutoff by passing it under one of the hooked knives 14, the thread beingheld between its slit and the knife by pressing it against the outerside of the outer wall 19 of the upper compartment 2. By reason of thelocations of the slots and the knives, the intervening wall 19 betweenthe slots and the cuttersis, in effect, a thread holding surface againstwhich the thread is pressed by the thumb or finger, 22, as shown in Fig.1, after the thread has been threaded through a needle 23' and drawnoutwardthe desired length. Then by a pull on the extending thread it iscut by the cutter under which it has been hooked.

For the purpose of preventing the spools from spinning when the threadis drawn quickly out, a tension weight bar 24. is placed on top of thespools and this bar is provided with openings 25 through which the spoolsupporting rods at loosely pass.

For the purpose of supporting the service device, the back wall thereofis provided with a bracket receiving loop 26 into which a bracket 27passes, the lower end of the bracket being bent as shown and fastened tothe edge of a table or wall 28 by suitable screws 29. This serves tohold the service steady at the desired convenient location for its useand operation, as described.

I By means of this service the user has supported in a convenientposition a device or apparatus containing all the necessaryparaphernalia for sewing and by means of which after the needle isthreaded the thread is drawn out the desired length and cut.

Preferably the outer wall 19, of the upper compartment 2, is providedwith the numerals 60 W, 40 W and 20 W indicating the size of the threadand the color white, whereas at the opposite side of thecenter of thedevice there would be placed 60 B, etc., to indicate the size of thethreads of the spools and the color black or blue. We desire it to beunderstood, of course, that the numbers may be placed thereon to suitthe user or the numbers may be omitted without departing from ourinvention.

Also the words Short needles, Medium needles, Long needles are placedadjacent the cushion 10 for the purpose of enabling the user to keep thedifferent sized needles 1O separated and prevent confusion in thatrespect.

For the purpose of adapting the cushion 10" to receive the needles ofVarying length and to provide for inserting the long needlessufliciently far to prevent them unduly projecting and at the same timepreventing the short needles from being so pushed in that they cannot bereadily withdrawn, this cushion is tapered, as shown in Fig. 3, byproviding a block 11 with a tapered end 11". This reduces the depth ofthe cushion at one end for the short needles and gradually increases itfor the medium needles and gives its full depth for the long needles.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is 1. A sewing service comprising a case having anopen top, an intermediate horizontal partition below the top and forminga spool receiving compartment, the case having a longitudinal andhorizontally extending opening below the spool compartment, a

cushion therein exposed through the said opening, the outer edge of thefront wall of the spool compartment having-vertically arranged threadreceiving openings, a thread cutter outside of the case and locatedapproximately at the lower portion of the spool compartment and saidfront wall between the thread openings and thread cutter constituting anouter finger thread holding surface between the thread cutter and thethread passages, whereby the thread is held by'the finger against theintervening holding surface, for the purpose described.

2. A sewing service comprising a case having an open top, two parallelseparated horizontal partitions within the case, a drawer occupying thespace between the partitions, the space above the upper partitionconstituting a spool holding compartment, the front wall of the casebelow the lower compartment having a longitudinal slot, a cushion belowthe lower partition-and exposed through the said slot, the upper edge ofthe front wall of the spool compartment having thread passages, theparts combined for the purpose described.

3. A sewing service comprising a case having an open top, anintermediate horizontal partition below the top and forming a supplyreceiving compartment, a horizontally extending drawer below the spoolcompartment, the outer wall of the case having a longitudinal andhorizontally extending opening below the drawer, a cushion below thedrawer and thebottom of the case and exposed through the said opening,and the upper edge of the front wall of the spool compartment havingthread openings, all combined for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signatures.

JOHN S. BROOKS. 'JOSEPH.M. COLLINS.

